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...decision to bomb the Move house was the most crucial of the confrontation, and for that reason probably spawned more contradictions in subsequent explanations. Sambor told reporters he did not recall who first suggested using explosives to demolish the roof bunker, though he added that Lieut. Powell of the bomb-disposal unit "came up with the recommendation" that they "create" the kind of device that was later dropped by Powell < himself. The Philadelphia Inquirer published an impressively detailed report that for at least 18 months the police had been working up contingency assault plans and studying the Move bunker...
Despite a unanimous rejection of Harvard's proposal to demolish a historic building, a city official said yesterday that the vote is more a call for new plans than an outright objection to developing the site...
...Commission's deliberations. With one exception, none of the officials quoted have, to my knowledge, attended a Commission meeting, much less appeared on behalf of the University. I invite them to do so on April 4 when the Commission considers Harvard's application for a permit to demolish 10 Mount Auburn Street. Charles M. Sullivan Executive Director Cambridge Historical Commission
...choosing to order the complete demolition and apply the moratorium, "[developers] would have an incentive to demolish historic landmarks," warns Sullivan...
...talk, the 75-year-old visitor will be escorted through the Rose Garden to the Family Dining Room. There will be some chilled Stolichnaya vodka from Mother Russia to wash down Chesapeake blue crabs out of Chef Henry Haller's imaginative kitchen. Old Grom can demolish succulent rolled veal, served on Lyndon Johnson's china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage point with a magnificent panorama...